By
Robert Anane, GNA
Accra, March 7, GNA
– Dr. Gamal Nasser, a founding member of the Socialist Forum, says Ghana and
Africa as a whole, should develop indigenous sources of knowledge that suit
domestic developmental needs.
This is because
challenges of the African continent are different from those of the western
world, and require an approach, designed by Africans, who are better placed to
understand those problems.
Dr. Nasser, said
this at an Independence Day Lecture, which was organised in Accra by the
Socialist Forum, Ghana, to mark the 63rd Independence Day
celebration of the country.
“The fact that
we see nothing wrong with our current educational system is wrong,” he
said, adding that the current system of education followed imperialist motives
that had been designed to keep Africa under Western bondage.
Dr, Nasser said
there was the need for a radical revolution which could produce an African
intellectual, who had practical solutions to Africa’s developmental needs.
“Until we
resolve our intellectual crisis, we will not be able to achieve the goals we
had at independence,” he said.
Mr. Kwesi Pratt
Junior, Co-Founder of the Socialist Forum, said the issue of independence went
beyond Ghana.
He said there was
the need for Africa to unite in fighting against all forms of territorial
infringement on the continent, to give better meaning to the continent’s
independence.
Mr. Pratt said so
far as the current world was besought with several cases of the principles of
sovereignty being violated by stronger powers, the objectives of independence
for states within Africa were yet to be attained.
He urged Africans to
strive for unity, with an aim to have firm and uninterrupted control over their
own resources, towards the development of the continent.
GNA